Carpe Diem

Written for the Day 7 NaPoWriMo prompt

I hear the forsythia sing its yellow song.

I weep with the willow in its birth.

Spring cuts a path in my memory

To another time,

To another place..

Running outside with

Francine by my side..

To years of green beginnings

With the promises they bring,

Sweet smell of apricots and mangoes,

Aspargus in chantilly lace

Soft music for the eyes.

Why must we wait so long

For this day to arrive?

Carpe Diem...

Let your heart soar!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

gkb - 4/7/11

Author's Note

Day 7 NaPoWriMo prompt:
1) an example of synasthetic metaphor — one that describes one sensory perception using adjectives more naturally suited to a different sense (e.g., “a red noise,” or a “a bitter touch”)
2) a fruit
3) the name (first or last) of someone you knew in school
4) a rhetorical question
5) a direct address to the poem’s audience — “Reader” or “mom” or “Michelle,” or maybe just “You”)
6) a word in a foreign language
7) a reference to a game of chance (darts or pool or the lottery or etc).
I think I included all but #7 ;)

Reviews

[Allen Smuckler]

This is wonderful G.K....the fact it followed a specific form makes it even more impressive...beautifully penned and I didn't need the picture to see it...
I've never heard of the NaPoWriMo prompt..but I love to try new stuff and that seems like a real challenge...Have you ever written a sestina...I too was a Sp. Ed teacher for years in the city of Bridgeport (A sestina)..if you are interested.
allen

[Patches I'm not so new..]

There are myriad of poem forms, themes etc. This is one I haven't heard of Do not urge me to try it for I will not. I enjoyed your poem though it is very picturesque, light a very good spring time poem.